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ANTHROPOLOGY
E. Pritchard, The Nuer, OUP, 1940 £12.50 - SOLD
Joy Adamson, The Peoples of Kenya, Collins, 1967 £8.50 - SOLD
ANTIQUES, ARCHITECTURE, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, DESIGN
Antique Porcelain Book £8.50
Helen Allingham, Cottage Houses of England, Bracken Books, 1978 £6.00
Gertrude Jekyll, Gardens for Small Country Houses, Country Life, 1927 £32.50
Margaret Aulton, Fair Touraine, Bodley Head, 1925 £10.00
E. J. Wall, The Dictionary of Photography, Iliffe & Sons £6.00
Colette Mansell, The Collector's Guide to British Dolls since 1920, Robert Hale, 1983 £8.50
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPY/MEMOIRS
More Biography £6.50
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, Gollancz £7.50
Charles Rowe, A Quaker Boy Growing Up, 1961 £7.50
Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: a Biography (vol 1), Chatto Collins, 1973 £4.50
Fonteyn, Spring Books, c.1950 £4.50
Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, Bodley Head, 1964 £10.00
Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Cresset Press, 1949 £6.00
L.T.C. Rolt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Book Club Associates, 1971 (7th impression) £4.50 - SOLD
Martin Gilbert, Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill 1939-41, Heinemann, 1983 £7.50 - SOLD
George Spater, A Marriage of True Minds: Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Cape, 1977 £4.50 - SOLD
The Life of Emily Dickinson, Faber, 1st English edition 1976 (2 volumes) £18.00 - SOLD
E.D.W. Chaplin, Winston Churchill and Harrow, 1941 £8.50
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
The Princess Elizabeth’s Gift Book, Hodder & Stoughton £4.50
Girl Annual no. 2 £5.00
Elsie J. Oxenham, Schoolgirl Jen of the Abbey, Collins, 1958 £4.50
Elsie J. Oxenham, Song of the Abbey, Collins, 1958 £4.50
W. E. Johns, Gimlet Lends a Hand, Brocks Books, 1949 £15.00
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy, Hodder & Stoughton, 1981 facsimile reprint £7.50 - SOLD
Leonard de Vries, Flowers of Delight, Dobson, 1965 £8.50
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, Spring Books, 1989 fascimile £7.50 - SOLD
Kit Williams, Masquerade, Jonathan Cape, 1st edition 1979, damaged £25.00
W. E. Johns, Biggles Flies to Work, Dean & Co, 1963 £3.00 - SOLD
Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Little Hut, Collins, 1962 £3.00 - SOLD
Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Goes to School, Collins, 1956 £3.50 - SOLD
Anthony Buckeridge, The Trouble with Jennings, Collins, 1961 £5.00 - SOLD
Anthony Buckeridge, Speaking of Jennings, Collins, 1974 1st edition 1st state dust wrapper £20.00 - SOLD
W. E. Johns, Biggles and the Black Peril, Dean & Co £3.00
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Methuen, 1996 £5.00 - SOLD
A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, Methuen, 1927 £125 - SOLD
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh, Methuen, 1966 £20.00 - SOLD
E.V. Lucas, Playtime & Company, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, Methuen, 1925 £15.00
The Gateway to Chaucer, Thomas Nelson, c.1920 £12.50 - SOLD
Eagle Annual No. 1, Hulton Press, 1951 £10.00
Eagle Annual No 2, Hulton Press, 1952 £8.50
Enid Blyton, The Mysteries of the Spiteful Letters, Methuen, 1955 £12.50
Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice, The Book Club, 1956 £12.50
Enid Blyton, Five on Kirrin Island Again, Hodder & Stoughton, 1950 £8.50
CLASSIC LITERATURE
Oscar Wilde, Complete Works, Collins, 1971 in slipcase £6.50 - SOLD
FICTION (NOVELS and SHORT STORIES)
Franz Kafka, Description of a Struggle, Secker & Warburg, 1960 (ex-library) £6.50
William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, Smith Elder, 1869 2 volumes £35.00
Pierre C de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1782 1 volume 1st edition £65.00
Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight, Doubleday, 2010 signed first edition £50.00 - SOLD
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Putnams, 1955 (lacking dust wrapper) £15.00
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Everyman’s Library £4.50
The Quiver (illustrated magazine), 1897 £10.00
FOLIO SOCIETY EDITIONS
A Treasury of Mark Twain £4.50
An Innkeeper's Diary £4.50
Rare Adventures of William Lithgow £5.00
Anthology of Autobiography £4.50 - SOLD
The Diary of a Village Shopkeeper £5.00
Our Village £5.00 - SOLD
The Jubilee Years £5.00
Life on the Mississippi £5.00
J. B. Priestley, English Journey £6.50
Historic Speeches £4.50 - SOLD
The Newgate Calendar £4.00 - SOLD
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby £7.50
Jerome K. Jerome, My Life and Times £6.50
Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales £4.00 - SOLD
French Short Stories £4.50 - SOLD
The Smith of Smiths £4.50 - SOLD
The Quest for Corvo £4.50
Little Book of Forewords £4.00
Best After Dinner Stories £4.50 - SOLD
P. D. James, Cover Her Face £8.50 - SOLD
The Persian Expedition £8.50 - SOLD
The Secret Histories £6.50 - SOLD
A.G. Macdonell, England, Their England £6.50 - SOLD
ed. J.E Morpurgo, Cobbett’s America £7.50
Daniel Defoe, Roxanna £8.50
Pierre C de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses £12.50
Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip £7.50 - SOLD
Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet Major, 1990 £4.50 - SOLD
Hugh Walpole, Richard III, 1965 £6.50 - SOLD
Boccaccio, The Decameron, 1953 (2 volumes) £8.00
The Amateur Emigrant £4.50
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn £6.50 - SOLD
Robert Graves, Count Belisarius £10.00 - SOLD
Book Lovers Companion £4.00
The Shadow of Vesuvius, 1976 £4.50
H. Melville, Moby Dick £12.50 - SOLD
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables £17.50 - SOLD
Richard Feynman, Easy and Not So Easy Pieces £8.50 - SOLD
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge £4.50 - SOLD
Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody £5.00 - SOLD
Grigson, Good Things £7.50 - SOLD
Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree £6.00
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native £5.00
The Grand Tour £6.50
Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford £6.00
FORESTRY, FARMING, LAND MANAGEMENT
V. C. Fishwick, Pigs, Crosby, 1948 £5.00 - SOLD
HISTORY
John W. Dodds, The Age of Paradox, Gollancz, 1953 £4.50
The Diary of Anne Frank, Viking, 1989 £25.00
Francis Hacket, Henry VIII, Jonathan Cape, 1950 £6.00
INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
E. Mason, Practical Coal Mining, Vertue, 2 volumes, 1950 £10.00
L.T.C. Rolt, The Inland Waterways of England, George Allen, 1966 £6.50
LOCAL HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
N. Pevsner, North Somerset and Bristol, Penguin, 1958 £12.50
N. Pevsner, South and West Somerset, Penguin, 1958 £17.50
N. Pevsner, Surrey, Penguin, 1962 £15.00
N. Pevsner, Warwickshire, Penguin, 1966 £12.50
John Barber, The Story of Oakham School, Sycamore Press, 1983 £20.00 - SOLD
Crichton Porteous, Portrait of Peakland, Robert Hale, 1963 £4.50 - SOLD
Lincolnshire Parish Clergy, Lincolnshire Record Society, 2016 £9.00
G. Ornsby, Sketches of Durham, George Andrews, 1846, bound together with: T. Bell, Local Monuments, T & J Pigg, 1856; Bruce Collingwood, The Wall of Hadrian, A. Reid, 1874; and E. Charlton, Society in Northumberland in the 18th Century, A. Reid, 1874 £85.00
W. Harrod, Norfolk Shell Guide, Faber, 1964 £8.50 - SOLD
Steven Burt, The Remarkable Story of Hunslet, 2022 £10.00 - SOLD
Alfred Mattison, The Romance of Old Leeds, Rigg Publications, 1987 reprint £7.50
Norman Nicholson, Portrait of the Lakes, Robert Hale, 1965 £4.50
Cledwyn Hughes. Portrait of Snowdonia, Robert Hale, 1967 £5.00
Peter Jerrome, Tread Lightly Here: an affectionate look at Petworth's ancient streets, Window Press, 1994 £6.50
Arthur Mee, The King's England: Norfolk, Hodder & Stoughton, 1972 £6.50 - SOLD
Robert Ovens, The Heritage of Rutland Water, 2008 £30.00 - SOLD
MILITARY HISTORY/MARITIME
Frank Carr, The Yachtsman’s England, Seely Service, c.1950s £5.00
Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle, Collins, 1966 £25.00
David Chandler, Marlborough Military Commander, Military Books, 1973 £12.50
Edward Ardizzone, Diary of a War Artist, Bodley Head, 1974 (ex library) £15.00 - SOLD
Rutland and the Great War, Rutland Committee for First World War Commemoration and Rutland County Museum, 2014 £22.50
William Sitwell, The Border: from a soldier's point of view, 1927 £10.00 - SOLD
MISCELLANEOUS INTEREST
London 1066-1914: Literary Sources & Documents, Helm, 1997 (3 volumes) £25.00
Charles Trice-Martin, The Record Interpreter, Phillimore, 1982 £8.50
L.C. Hector, The Handwriting of English Documents, Edward Arnold, 1966 £7.50
Leo Gowan, The Craft of Stickmaking, Crowood Press, 1991 £6.50
MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Dirk Bogarde, A Gentle Occupation, Chatto & Windus, 1980 (first edition) £6.50
NATURAL HISTORY
The Scallop, Shell £6.50
Rev. H. Martyn Hart, World of the Sea, Cassell, 1882 £22.50
W. Keble Martin, Concise British Flora, Ebury Press, 1967 £4.50 - SOLD
PASTIMES, HANDICRAFTS, TECHNICAL SKILLS
John Wilding, 30 Hour Alarm Clock £25.00
Hugard, Expert Card Technique, Faber, 1954 £22.50 - SOLD
Wilfrid G. Wilson, Change Ringing, Faber, 1976 £25.00
Escoffier, A Guide to Modern Cookery, Heinemann, 1961 £30.00
Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery, Longman Green, 1860 £60.00 - SOLD
Elizabeth David, French Provincial Cooking, 1967 £25.00
Willard D. Morgan, The Leica Manual, Fountain Press, 1955 £6.00
PHILOSOPHY
J. Ruskin, Unto this Last, George Allen, 1902 £15.00
POETRY and DRAMA
Acting Games, University of London Press, 1946 £3.50
Robert Herrick, Collected Poems, 1906 £45.00
Tom Stoppard, Jumpers, Faber, 1976 paperback reprint £4.00 - SOLD
Gilbert and Sullivan, Songs of Two Savoyards, Routledge, 1892 £8.50
R.H. Cromek, Reliques of Robert Burns, Cadell & Davies, 1808 (first edition) £110.00
RAILWAYS
Gordon Rushton, Welsh Highland Railway Renaissance: The Story of the Restoration of the Welsh Highland Railway 1991-2011, Adlestrop Press, 2012 £20 - SOLD
Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, facsimile reprint £10
REFERENCE
Brooke-Little, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Bloomsbury, 1985 £8.50 - SOLD
SOCIAL HISTORY
Ian Bevan, Top of the Bill: the story of the London Palladium, Muller, 1952 £12.50
Winston Churchill, The Island Race, Cassell, 1964 £8.50
The London of Gustave Dore, Wordsworth Editions, 1989 £8.00 - SOLD
Richard Blakeborough, Yorkshire Wit and Character, E P Publishing, facsimile reprint 1973 £12.50 - SOLD
SPORTS AND GAMES
Tani Yukio, The Art of Ju-Jitsu, Foulsham, sm. pb. c.1960 £5.50
Crascredo, Horse Sense and Sensibility, Country Life, 2nd impression 1927 £6.50
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 1, Westmorland Gazette £3.50 - SOLD
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 3, Westmorland Gazette £3.50 - SOLD
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 4, Westmorland Gazette £3.50 - SOLD
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 5, Westmorland Gazette £3.50 - SOLD
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book 7, Westmorland Gazette £3.50 - SOLD
Alfred Wainwright, Walks on the Howgill Fells, Westmorland Gazette £5.00 - SOLD
Alfred Wainwright, A Lakeland Sketchbook, Westmorland Gazette £5.00
Alfred Wainwright, Fellwanderer, Westmorland Gazette £5.00 - SOLD
John Roberts, Illustrated Dictionary of Trout Flies, Collins Willow, 1995 £6.50
John Stern and Marcus Williams, The Essential Wisden, 2013 £20.00
Alfred Wainwright, Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, Westmoreland Gazette £4.50
TRAVEL, MOUNTAINEERING AND EXPLORATION
Pompeo Molmenti, Venice, Medici Society £4.00
John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953 (first edition in very good dust wrapper) £27.50
H. Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet, Rupert Hart Davies, 1953 (lacking dustwrapper) £5.00 - SOLD